rt.com Archives - 13 February 2013, Wednesday

Undercover IDF raid ignites mass clashes, injuries in West Bank (PHOTOS) Dozens of Palestinians have been wounded in clashes with undercover Israeli troops disguised as vegetable vendors. The discovery of a small commando unit conducting arrests in the West Bank outraged locals forcin...

The United States Army will be deploying troops to nearly three-dozen African nations in the coming year. Soldiers based out of Fort Riley, Kansas’ 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division will begin training in March 2013 in order to prepare for a project that will send troops to as many a...

The US will significantly increase its military presence in the Philippines – an announcement that has angered China, whose Communist Party chief urged his military to prepare for a struggle and whose state-run media have criticized the agreement. The US announced in 2011 that it woul...

The world may never find out how the US tortured five detainees currently held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detention center: a military judge has decided to go ahead with the government’s request to censor testimonies from Gitmo inmates. The judge, Army Colonel James Pohl, signed a pr...

The USS Eisenhower, an American aircraft carrier that holds eight fighter bomber squadrons and 8,000 men, arrived at the Syrian coast yesterday in the midst of a heavy storm, indicating US preparation for a potential ground intervention. While the Obama administration has not announce...

Chinese police have put a huge dent in the production of fake goods by arresting 73 people who were part of a gang making and selling counterfeit Louis Vuitton and Hermes bags. The police started digging into the criminal organization in January 2012, Xinhua state news agency said. Th...

­In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss central bankers and governments from Iceland to Argentina attempting to tilt the global pinball game so that the ball goes in the ‘right’ hole, and how ‘invincibility’ tattoos fail to protect from the guns and knives of real-world...

In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the nine scariest words in the English language: “I’m from JP Morgan and I’m here to help.” They also examine deferred prosecution agreements, and how celebrities and bloggers shill for banksters in California’s mortgage contract a...

It's said that there's no point in reinventing the wheel. The mayor of New York disagrees, as he vowed that the city is building the world's biggest ferris wheel, overtaking the current record holder in Singapore and far outstripping the London Eye. ­"The New York Wheel will be an att...

Defending Formula 1 champion, Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull, has won the Singapore Grand Prix to regain second place in the drivers’ standings. ­McLaren’s Jenson Button finished in second, with season leader Fernando Alonso completing the podium at the Marina Bay circuit. The fate of t...

McLaren driver, Lewis Hamilton, continues his great run of form in recent races by topping the qualifying session for the Formula 1’s Singapore Grand Prix. ­The Brit clocked 1 minute and 46,362 seconds to leave second-paced Pastor Maldonado of Williams nearly half a second behind. Ham...

The yacht Esimit Europa 2, which sails under the European Union flag, can now be called the best in the world after winning last weekend's Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. ­“Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing!” So said American football coach Henry Russel, whose words are held in high...

The Secret Service is up in arms over claims being made by a group that says they have obtained White House hopeful Mitt Romney’s tax records. In a message posted online, the group says they will leak the files if not paid $1,000,000 in Bitcoins. An unidentified group says that they m...

The administrator of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the United States says that a hacker has compromised the service, stealing the around a quarter-of-a-million US dollars’ worth of the crypto-currency in the process. Bitfloor founder Roman Shtylman says that someone managed to succe...

Upwards of $90,000 worth of Bitcoins have been stolen from an exchange service website this week, marking the second time in nearly two months that the cyber-currency has been compromised due to a security breach. The administrators of Bitcoinica, a website that allows Bitcoin holders...

The decentralized, digital Bitcoin currency has caught the attention of people around the globe who are unhappy with how national bank mismanagement is impacting the world economy. It has also, apparently, caught the eye of one very clever schemer. An invite-only online hedge fund tha...